Re: using gmail contacts with Gnus

[Dan Christensen]

Bastien <bzg@altern.org> writes:

> Dan Christensen <jdc@uwo.ca> writes:
>
>> Can Gnus use gmail contacts to expand aliases in outgoing messages?
>> If it can't do this directly, is anyone aware of tools to generate a
>> .mailrc from my gmail contacts?
>
> Should be feasible:
> http://code.google.com/apis/contacts/docs/1.0/developers_guide_python.html

And here's an example of using emacs lisp to interact with a google
search API:

  http://github.com/hober/google-el/tree/master

I bet it wouldn't be too hard to do something similar for contacts, so
Gnus could directly expand aliases for gmail contacts.  Any takers?

This link is probably helpful too:

  http://code.google.com/apis/gdata/articles/using_cURL.html

> I guess many Gnus users use BBDB -- http://bbdb.sourceforge.net
>
> Maybe a BBDB-gmail sync tool?

That would be also be nice.

Dan